So you what to know what the problem is with this horrific law? Let me illuminate you.
First, it is a standard fact that the police and immigration do not mix. If you get arrested for something the police have no business investigating your immigration status. Now that's all changed under the law. The police can pull anyone over at anytime and report their status.
The second and most disgusting part about this law is a little more complicated. Say for example you are a refugee who came here twenty years ago and you've never applied for Citizenship although you are legally a landed resident.
Under the previous federal immigration law you have to commit a felony in order to be deported. A felony as we all know is a serious crime of car theft, bank theft, murder, and rape. And this is where the new immigration law in Arizona get nuts. The definition of a felony under the law in not what you'd think.
The unbelievable fact is that under the immigration law a felony is defined as any crime that comes with a maximum sentence of a year or more. So in effect a small misdemeanor charge in criminal court becomes a felony in immigration court and basically you can piss on the street get arrested and get deported for a felony! Now got it? Now fight it!
Monday, May 17, 2010
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